Sat 11.2.13NYC Launch Party for Gigantic Talk, the Silent Barn, Brooklyn. Featuring readings from contributors Marie-Helene Bertino, Sparrow, and Anna Wiener; a performance by Bluntfang, whom VICE has called one of the "rap game vanguard"; and DJ sets from DJ Chipotle (Thu Tran of IFC's Food Party and Syed Salahuddin of Babycastles) and from editors Lincoln Michel and James Yeh. Doors at 7pm. Tickets are $10 (includes a free copy of the issue). Issue contributors, subscribers, and Gigantic Worlds Kickstarter donors get in free!

Mon 9.16.13, Literary Worlds, Bell House, Brooklyn, New York. Navel-, shoe-, and stargazers unite! Electric Literature, Gigantic, and Tumblr present the biggest party of the Brooklyn Book Festival, featuring the most dancing, reasonably priced drinks, and literary fun this side of the Milky Way. DJing by Planet Rump.

Sat 9.14.13, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Crime Scene Bar, New York City. Gigantic and VICE present a night of readings dedicated to overhearing and the overheard: morning-commute conversations, juicy sidewalk gossip, distressingly loud sex, sex that is just loud enough, and otherwise intimate encounters. Featuring readings by contributors Gary Indiana, Hamilton Morris, and Hilary Leichter. Part of LitCrawl NYC.Sun 9.22.13, Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, New York. Gigantic will share a table in the book fair with Electric Literature and Fence Books.

fri 5.3.2013, Gigantic editors and staff read short prose pieces written by international writers past, present, and future at the PEN American Center-sponsored Open Pages Book Fair in Washington Mews, New York University, New York City. Readers for the event were Michael Barron, Ben Blum, Sasha Fletcher, Chloé Cooper Jones, Lincoln Michel, Nadxieli Nieto, and James Yeh.

sun 5.31.09 Gigantic was a part of CLMP Lit Mag Fair at Housing Works Bookstore, New York, NY.

sat 5.16.09 Gigantic held the Gigantic Microreading which was featured at 2009 LitCrawl NYC Festival at Home Sweet Home in New York, NY. Readers and artistic presenters included Tao Lin, James J. Williams III, Yuka Igarashi, Ben Blum, Andrew Bulger and Matt Di Paoli. Suzanne Pettypiece wrote an article about the event in Poets & Writers and there is also a video which includes Tao Lin's reading and a brief interview with Gigantic Co-editor James Yeh.

sat 4.25.09 Gigantic held its Debut Launch Party and Benefit at Starr Space in Brooklyn, NY. Readers included Justin Taylor, Adam Wilson, Anya Yurchyshyn, Kristen O'Toole, Lauren Spohrer, and Kenny Aquiles, along with a cartoon presentation from Todd Zuniga, music from Adron and The Five Cents, and DJ sets from King Vitamin, Cormac McBootay, and DJ HemingYeh.